[Info-vax] Fortran

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 08:58:24 EST 2018


On 12/5/18 10:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/5/2018 9:12 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/5/2018 9:00 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/5/2018 8:23 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 12/5/18 1:29 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>> Didn't Knuth say that global variables should be banned?
>>>>
>>>> And Dijkstra said GOTO's should, too.  How did that work out?
>>>
>>> Pretty well.
>>>
>>> Many newer languages does not have GOTO.
>>>
>>> And in those newer languages that does have it, then
>>> its usage is typical extremely rare.
>>
>> We must exist in different worlds ...
> 
> You see a lot of code in languages like C# and PHP use GOTO??

I have never seen any code in PHP that wasn't totally
obfuscated and confusing even without GOTOs.

bill




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